Ice gone, finally

For the first time since the last week in November, my street is totally ice- and snow-free. Also for the first time since late November, the temperature has gone above 10 C, and allowed me to go outdoors wearing only a light jacket rather than the winter coat + scarf + funny hat + gloves. Sadly the temperature is set to fall again over the next few days, but hopefully we'll be spared streets covered in sheets of death-ice, where venturing outdoors risks a visit to the broken bone clinic.
It wouldn't be so bad if there was a community spirit in this country that told people to clear the sidewalks (or 'pavements' as they insist on calling them here) when it snowed. The first few years I was in Scotland I always did this whenever we got snow (which was a lot less often than lately), but then I noticed that I was the only one on my street (or any other) that did this, so it seemed fairly pointless. But leaving the snow on the 'pavements' to get compacted into ice that is impossible to take a step on without performing unintentional gymnastics is just plain anti-social.